Article 9

Any register required to be kept by or on behalf of an existing local planning authority which relates to an area wholly within the area of a district planning authority, shall be delivered on 1st April 1974 to that district planning authority and shall form part of the register for the area of that authority.

Any register required to be kept by or on behalf of an existing local planning authority which relates to an area within the areas of more than one district planning authority, shall be delivered on 1st April 1974 to the district planning authority in whose area is situate the larger or largest part, as the case may be, of the area to which the register relates.

A district planning authority to whom a register is delivered under paragraph (2) of this article shall within one month deliver to any other district planning authority to whose area any portion of the register relates such portion of the register or, where it is not practicable to deliver such portion, copies of such portion as relate to the area of that other district planning authority and the district planning authority to whom any register, portion of register or copy which relates to their area is delivered shall include the contents of any such register, portion of register or copy in the register required to be kept by them.

In this article “register” means a register required to be kept under section 34 of the Act of 1971 or under regulation 31 of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1969^f1 and includes any portion of such a register.